When Nero Fiddled
10—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 21, 1952
The Jewish Conception
By DR. N. E. ARONSTAM
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Moe Leiter Reaches
Nero fiddled while Rome, self who set fire to Rome, al- $ Million Round Table .
leopywrght. 1952. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Inc.)
Of the Art of Healing
supercede it. He should be.
cognizant of systematic idiosyn-Ji
crasies of the patient and be
very cautious in treating the',
very young and the well ad-ir
vanced in years."
These are but a few of the P;:
golden rules of Zactio Lusitan- te
us, who lived in the 16th cen-
The Jewish conception of. the
art of healing as laid down by
Zacuto Lusitanus (1575) should
I though such a story was spread
burned, we say.
The MGM picture. Quo Vadis, at the time. Someone had to be Dominion Life Assurance serve as a model to the modern
accuses Nero of much more blamed, - and Nero decided to Company announces Moe Leiter, physician. I might say that it
excels the Hippocratic Oath and
than fiddling at an inappropri- make the Christians the goat.
company producer in the injunctions of Maimonides.
Quo Vadis shows us that the
ate time. Under Nero. the Chris-
I quote from the "History of tury, and whose principles the Li
tians had their first taste of Romans were the persecutors of
Jewish Literature (Waxman), medical world, 300 years later,
. the early Christians. For hun-
persecution.
under the caption of "Science": is gradually absorbing as guides s.
dreds of years, the world has
Nero is a kind of twin
"The physician must at all in the practice of the art of
a devil to the Jewish world as !been told about the Jewish in- I
times - be conscientious. He should healing.
well as to the Christian. If he iquity in the matter of Christ.
be well dressed, but not at the
threw Christians to the lions, his But in this picture we see the
point of vanity. He should not Oakland Education Board Bars
general. Titus, did no less to the Romans tossing some Christians
be loquacious in his conversa- Gideon Bible from Public Schools
captives of Judea who were to the lions and crucifying oth-
tion, and not insist on a stag-
brought to Rome. About a ers. Those who have some his-
OAKLAND, Calif., (JTA)- The
gering honorarium. lie should
t housand of the handsomest torical knowledge- know that
not be parsimonious and en- Oakland Board of Education has
Jewish captives were rounded up , crucifixion was not a Jewish
vious. He should adm.t his mis- denied permission to the Gideon ;
in the arena and forced to bat- form of capital punishment but
takes, and not be above criti- - Society to distribute Gideon
tle with lions and other beasts one very common among the
cism. nor ignore the censure of Bibles in the public schools of
Romans.
The
sages
of
the
Tal-
for the amusement of the mob.
this city. The society's request
his elders.
the same kind of treatment ac- mud were generally averse to
"He should possess good sense had been opposed by the Jewish'
capital
punishment.
They
said
corded to the Chrisians.
and be well disposed. He should Community Relations Council
that a court which condemned
study every subject thoroughly. and other Oakland groups on
To be persecuted is a rarer more than one man to death in
buy rather a few but good books church-state grounds.
thing for Christians. We Jews 70 years was a murderous one.
and peruse them dillssently. He
are .specialists in the arts of be-
Since Quo Vadis—now at the
should refrain from making
ing tortured, but perhaps for Adams Theater in Detroit—is
false promises to cure what ob-
this reason Quo Vadis does have one of those very super duper
vio ly is incurable. He should
some special significance. It tells spectacle pictures, maybe it will
ne minimize nor exaggerate
of a time when there were po- be able to bring to the masses
groms against Christians.
who do not read history some Detroit, has become a member th nature of a malady, and
ust always be willing to con-
The era which the picture re- semblance of historical reality of the Million Dollar Round
calls was of course decisive both on a very important matter.
Table sponsored by - the National sult with other physicians.
The principal aim of the phy-
for Jews and Christians. It saw
Association of Life Underwriters.
the fall of the Jewish state, the
Membership in the ranks of mil- sician is to cure the patient, but
and be sure
Yeshiva
Medical
Center
beginning of the dispersal of
lion Dollar producers comes by he must consider the difficulties
of obtaining
the Jews and the emergence of Plans Vast InnOvations
virtue of placing a million or and dangers of the treatment.
the finest
Christianity.
more of life insurance protec- He should follow the salient rule
available
NEW YORK, (JTA)—New•con- tion in a 12-month period.
of medicine. viz., that it aims in
The chasm between Christian-
in mater-
aiding nature, but does not to
ity and Judaism in those days cepts in medical education will
Mr. Leiter's record over a term
was much narrower than it was be introduced by the medical
ials a n d
of
18
years
has
placed
him
in
to become later. Many Chris- school of the YeShiva University
workman-
tians still regarded themselves here, the first non-sectarian the top echelon of the com-
ship at less
as Jews. The deification of Je- medical college under Jewish pany's salesmen. Vice-president
cost to you
sus had not yet become a hard sponsorship, it was annoUnced in the Leading Production Club
before sea-
doctrine. Many Christians oh- by Dr. Harry Zimmerman, newly for 11 years, he was leading
son prices.
served the Saturday Sabbath appointed director of the school. producer and president in 1939.
Dr. Zimmerman said that j Mr. Leiter has an unbroken rec-
and practiced circumcision. The
New Testament had not vet revolutionary methods in medi- ord as a leading qualifier in the
been written. That was to come cal teaching will take place in Builders' Club.
Ask
seven major areas: fluidity of 1 He has received the National
about later.
FOB
If there were many Chris- curricula, socio-economic, as- . Quality Award every year since II
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AT YOUR
tians in Rome in this period, pects. home care. ethical prac- its inception in 1946. During
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there were also many Jews. and i tices. preventive medicirie, legal 1951, Mr. Leiter led the entire 1 NEIGHBORHOOD .-4
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Jews also were engaged in mis- . medicine. and group practice. He Dominion Life field force in the
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Some very eminent Romans ings medical educators are al- and the British West Indies in
ready being considered fOr posi- volume of premiums submitted.
adopted-the Jewish faith.
TV TIME TREAT !
The Christians of thoge days Ii tons in the school. Financing of Moe Leiter heads the -agency of
Made of tender fillets of im-
ported herring — wonderfully
shared the same fate as the I the medical center will cost Moe Leiter and - Associates, Do-
spiced—and packed daily in i
minion Life Assurance Company
Jews. The R o m a n s disliked ; $25,000,000.
'Detroit—in • rich. heavy. sour '
cream with Spanish onions or
Detroit office, 1766 Penobscot
them. They finally conquered 1
in tangy wine sauce.
this dislike by converting
' Bldg.
1 Israel Receives the
Original
Romans to thi, ir faith. Then the
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Creation of an American
Romans were left with no one '
Zionist
Congress
Suggested
to dislike but the Jews. Psy- '
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A state-
chologists tell us that man al-
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ment calling for the creation of
ways seeks a scapegoat. The
an American Zionist Congress
Jews solved that problem by;
of new low rates. Consult thee Israel Tourist Seri ice
similar to the World Zionist
having an actual goat--a "ka-
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Congress
was
issued
by
Louis
pora" for all.
4 1YAR '30th April' Documentation and Visa Conveniently Arrongcd
Segal, labor Zionist leader.
Historically, the picture Quo
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I./mils is Silbieet to,SOMe ques-
Mr. Segal asserted that "the
tioning. Historians generally do
only solution to the chaos exist-
TO. S-6$96
ing on the American Jewish •
nut accept the theory of the
picture that it was Nero him-
today
is
the
establishment
scene :
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of a democratically based central
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Hebrew Medical Journal
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activities for Zionism, Jewry and
Marks End of 24th Year
Israel." This ; .he said, is the re-
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The appearance of Volume 2,
group, but of all Zionist groups
Dance and Entertainment
1951 of Hebrew Medical Journal
in this country.
(Harofe Haivril concludes the
Saturday evening, March 29th, 1952
"An American Zionist Congress
24th successful year of its pub-
should be convened once every
B'nai Moshe Auditorium
lication -under the editorship of
Original music manuscripts by two or three years," Mr. Se w,
DEXTER AT LAWRENCE
Dr. Moses
Ave..
New Einhorn.
York, 28. at .983 Park Darius Milhaud and Ernest suggested, "which should consist
Mickey Woolf and His Orchestra
In addition to the regular Bloch were presented to Israel of delegates from every Zionist
; Ambassador ABBA EBAN (right ► party and faction. Such a body.
Admission—S1.25 Including Tax I Per Persons
medical
articles,
the section
on
Historical
Medicine
contains
an ; by HENRY MORGENTHAU, Jr.. similar to the World Zionist
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interesting treatise Z chairman of the board of gover- Congress, would be able to decide
ma nn Munt nes of by Jerusalem , nors of the $500,000.000 Israel on the various problems which
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and its r toJewish id , were given to the State of Israel a body will, to a great extent.
Jew and an in honor of PIERRE MONTEUX. raise the prestige of the entire
other medical science
article by Dr. Y. Leibovitz of conductor of the San Francisco Zionist movement and will cer-
, Symphony Orchestra, at a spe- tainly help cement Zionist forces
Israel on the life n and
of vial concert 'given recently in in America JewiSh life.'
and work
philoso-
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BBC Withdraws 'Prisoner'
Bonds. The Milhaud work is
Henry R. Gold p resentS a timely ; ; entitled. "Le Candelabre a Sept
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discussion on --The Jewish Con- , I Branches," while the Bloch corn- Broadcasting Corporation's tel-
tribution to thhe Development positions bear the title "Deux evision department has promised
of The
Medical
Psychology".
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Both were performed by the the television play "The Prison-
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health conditions in Israel. In direction of Pierre Monteux
gave offense to Jews. The play's
the section "Personalia" are pre- the concert for State of Israel central character was a Nazi-
sented biographicalsketches of Bonds.
like Israeli officer.
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